LACP Bonding in XenServer - Configuration and Troubleshooting

In XenServer 6.1, LACP link aggregation was added to existing bonding modes for vSwitch. This article describes dynamic link aggregation LACP between a XenServer host and a switch, giving a high-level overview of the 802.3ad protocol, explaining configuration and diagnosis tools. Background LACP...

How to Adjust the Bond Balance Interval in XenServer 6.x

XenServer 6.1.0 introduces a change to the NIC bonding load balancing algorithm for active-active bonds in the vSwitch network stack. In past releases, active-active bonds were set to rebalance load every 10 seconds. However, in XenServer 6.1.0 active-active bonds on the vSwitch rebalance load...

XenServer Loses Network connectivity on Pool join (LACP bond entry incomplete)

Upon adding a host to an existing Pool configured with NIC Bonding of type LACP , the newly added host's NIC bond entry never finishes updating, as seen on the image below, where the Management interface never merges with the bond. The previous NIC remains as IP Setup None and the bond shows...